Archive for 'Opinion'

By H. Talmage Day (Courtesy photo) Alexandria is particularly well situated to help our nation confront and interpret the complex history of slavery, the Civil War, its aftermath and the long struggle for equal rights. The [...]

By Lynn Hampton, organizer, Bill Euille write-in campaign The City of Alexandria just received a bond rating upgrade from Standard and Poor’s — to AAA stable. Moody’s upgraded the city’s outlook in 2013. You cannot get [...]

By Jerry Foley, Alexandria (File photo) The recent controversy over Confederate memorials really has made me start thinking so much about our memories that are preserved. Then I realized that here in the United States, especially [...]

(File photo) It has been two months since D.C.’s environmental agency and four months since the National Park Service expressed concerns about NRG’s plan to clean up previous oil leaks at the site of the closed [...]

By Townsend A. “Van” Van Fleet, Republican city council candidate To the editor: A few months ago I commented in the Alexandria Times that letters to the editor should have identified authors. To have anything less [...]

By Judy Noritake; President, Braddock Metro Citizens Coalition To the editor: On the heels of the homicide in the Braddock neighborhood last week, I want to say a few words by way of introduction about the [...]

By Rev. Matthew Kozlowski and Danielle Kozlowski, Alexandria (Photo/Chris Teale) To the editor: While we realize that there has been no official call to remove or move the memorial to Alexandria’s fallen Civil War soldiers, we [...]

(Photo/Chris Teale) Alexandria may be just a river’s width away from Washington, but like many cities farther south, the city has a very complex history when it comes to race, slavery and the Civil War. In [...]

(Photo/Jennifer Powell) City council’s recent decision to allow longer hours at parking meters in West Old Town is good news for patrons and proprietors of businesses in that part of Alexandria. The change, which allows motorists [...]